mechanismj wrote:Seeya_Later wrote:noby wrote:Seeya_Later wrote:IDM and Techno (Ugh) are two terms I hate with a passion.
Electronic Music is perfectly fine.
Hating on IDM, fine, I like the term but whatever. But what's with Techno, it's completely legitimate genre. Of course it's completely misused by the public and people who don't know what they are talking about, but that's beside the point.
Not too fond of 'electronic music' though, it's kinda like saying Guitar music or Acoustic music.
Point taken. I just think Techno is an umbrella term like you say. I just don't like the way it sounds, probably because I make electronic music and most people say afterward "Oh, He makes Techno". It's strictly personal, I just don't like the way the word sounds. It ends up being some people's catch-all term when they encounter anything electronic.
I refer to my own music as synthpop or circuitgaze.
Yes. That is exactly what happens. People who don't understand something find the most overused generic term they can to categorize it, because they simply cannot live unless something they don't understand fits neatly into our wonderfully redundant human language. I have never made anything that resembles techno. I consider it music made with electronics.
YES. People do the same with art and film.It's like their typical no-nonsense blue-collar farm raised sensibilities become threatened until they either:
Make fun of it
Diminish it ("my 4 year old could draw that" or "this isn't as funny as dane cook")
Throw an umbrella term over it
Dissuade it ("No son of mine will be an artist" or "dude, why?" or "why do you like weird things?")
Or just destroy it
I carry a lot of animosity for these types of people. I wish there was a specific term for them.
And now the general population also has their unfunny "lol sooo random!" humor which I hate too.
